Re: Back-end character set remapping
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 19:02:10 GMT
Message-ID: <DVANDERR.93Nov12110211_at_hen3ry.oracle.com>
In article <CGA87z.8n2_at_copley.csc.mckinsey.com> claman_at_copley.csc.mckinsey.com (Larry Claman) writes:
We are now in the process of porting our applications to the Macintosh. The problem is that we have extended characters stored in our data, and that the Macintosh uses a different character mapping for extended characters than the Windows ANSI character set. Thus, any data retrieved on the Mac that contains extended characters is displayed incorrectly. Omnis 7 allows you to remap characters based on custom remapping tables, so we are able to handle this in our own applications; however the characters are still mapped incorrectly when using any other tools.
I'm hoping it would be possible to remap characters at the driver level. Would ODBC / Oracle*Glue / SQL*NET 2.0 be able to do this? Or, is there a setting in SQL*NET 1.5 that would do this for me?
Oracle7 does this. when you create a database, you declare a character encoding for the database. character encoding conversion is done between that encoding and the one declared by the client in the NLS_LANG environment variable.
-Larry Claman
claman_at_copley.csc.mckinsey.com
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